This innovative and highly practical course focuses on performing various cervical-thoracic and mediastinal surgical procedures, such as anterior and transmanubrial approaches, tracheal and supra-aortic vessel dissection, and sternal and rib osteosynthesis, among others. All of these can be useful both for the management of severe trauma and for the planned resection of apical or mediastinal lung tumors.

A mediastinal tracheostomy will also be performed, which, although an extremely rare procedure, involves complex tracheal and mediastinal dissection.

For educational, ethical, and legal reasons, cadaver models (human specimens) are a suitable method for practising complex surgical procedures, such as those included in this course.